Trump delays decision on Paris climate accord

May 28, 2017, 04:43

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He says, "it allows you to communicate in a discreet manner". Other G7 nations are leaning heavily on Trump to stay in the climate deal.

The G7 leaders have agreed to keep fighting protectionism, a win for the six countries that had been pushing U.S. President Donald Trump to come around to their view of free trade.

Trump, who has called climate change a hoax and has already taken actions to roll back environmental protections during his short time in office, tweeted this morning that he's still not sure about the Paris deal. "And he wants to clearly hear what the European leaders have to say".

Almost every nation that signed the 2015 agreement has agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday praised the productivity of the G7 summit held on May 26-27 in the city of Taormina on the Italian island of Sicily.

Trump, who once dismissed global warming as a hoax, told his G-7 counterparts Friday that environmental restrictions could hamper US economic growth and job creation, according to a senior White House official.

While at the Vatican, Trump received from Pope Francis a copy of his 2015 papal treatise that links fossil fuels to global warming.

The statement's language on trade appeared to be a compromise between the new US administration's skepticism about some current trade deals and the more pro-free trade views of other G7 members. The Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Parolin, made his own pro-Paris pitch to Trump and his advisers.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also opted to see the glass half-full.

Macron joked on Saturday that Trump had told him he had never backed his far-right opponent Marine Le Pen during the recent French election.

There is no evidence that money has begun to "pour in" - and countries do not pay the USA or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation directly.

The president then tweeted, "Many NATO countries have agreed to step up payments considerably, as they should". They spend domestically on weapons or other defense-related needs. Only five members now meet the target, but the other nations are committed to the goal by 2024.

In fact, discussions over the climate deal have sown divisions within the White House, splitting the nationalists and the globalists  including Cohn  who are competing for influence within Trump's administration. "First on the list, of course, is terrorism".

The United States of America is in the process of reviewing its policies on climate change and on the Paris Agreement and thus is not in a position to join the consensus on these topics.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter before the formal announcement.

The source said G-7 members were still wrestling over a statement on trade and whether it would condemn protectionism, as previous G-7 statements have.

The rules of the NAFTA countdown mean Trudeau and Trump can not talk about specific issues that would be subject to negotiations, even though they did talk about Canada-U.S. trade, including softwood lumber.

President Emmanuel Macron of France said he had told Trump that it was "indispensable for the reputation of the United States and for the Americans themselves that the Americans remain committed" to the climate agreement. German chancellor Angela Merkel said: "We put forward very many arguments".

"We have been gone for close to nine days".

Donald Trump's first trip overseas was supposed to be about building bridges and clarifying his administration's intentions to friends and foes alike.

Diplomats worked through the night trying to bridge the gap between the new US administration and its allies Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan on a number of issues, including trade, the environment and refugee crisis.

Trump's remarks come at the end of his week-long foreign trip, which is about to conclude, as he is scheduled to return to the White House later today. The trip took the Trumps to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Belgium and Italy.

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